These are good defaults, since normally you should not let just anyone edit pages in the Site and SiteAdmin groups, muck about with the permissions on Main, PmWiki, SiteAdmin, and Site, or upload files.

Note

The default SideBar is Site.SideBar and is locked for editing by default. If you want others to be able to edit the SideBar you will need to set on Site.SideBar?action=attr the edit password

nopass:

(meaning NO password). You would first need to set an admin password in config.php.

What Passwords to Set

Let us assume that the wiki administrator should be able to

Edit the Site group

Change permissions on the Main, PmWiki, SiteAdmin,, and Site groups

Upload files.

Regular users should be able to

Upload files.

To make this possible, the wiki administrator should:

Set an admin password. This password will be accepted by all PmWiki password prompts, across the entire site, for all actions.

Set an upload password. This will allow users who know the password to upload files. If there should not be an upload password, just set it to empty...after reading Uploads Admin.

If you don't want random strangers editing the wiki, you should also set an edit password.